Robert D. Gibbons, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Health Statistics
Professor of Biostatistics
Phone: (312) 413-7755
E-mail: rdgib@uic.edu

Robert Gibbons is a Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Health Statistics at UIC. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the Youden Prize for Statistical contributions to Chemistry and the Harvard Award for contributions to Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His research interests span many areas including analysis of longitudinal data, environmental statistics, and statistical applications in health services research, mental health, fMRI, molecular genetics, chemistry, and organ transplantation.

Representative Publications

Gibbons R.D., & Dysken M.W. Statistical and Methodological Advances in Psychiatric Research. New York, Spectrum, 1983.

Gibbons R.D., Bock R.D. Trend in Correlated Proportions. Psychometrika, 52, 113-124, 1987.

Gibbons R.D., Hedeker D.R., Elkin I., Waternaux C., Kraemer H.C., Greenhouse J.B., Shea M.T., Imber S.D., Sotsky S.M., Watkins J.T. Some conceptual and statistical issues in analysis of Longitudinal psychiatric data. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50, 739-750, 1993.

Gibbons R.D., Hedeker D.R., Charles S.C., Frisch P. A random-effects probit model for predicting medical malpractice claims. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 760-767, 1994.

Gibbons R.D. Statistical Methods for Groundwater Monitoring. Wiley, New York, 1994
Gibbons R.D., Hedeker D. Random-effects probit and logistic regression models for three-level data. Biometrics, 53, 1527-1537, 1997.

Gibbons R.D., Brown B.W. et al. Assessment of the safety and efficacy data for the hypnotic Halcion: Results of an analysis by an IOM Committee. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94, 993-1002, 1999.

Gibbons RD., Meltzer D., Duan N. et al. Waiting for organ transplantation. Science, 287, 237-238, 2000.

Gibbons R.D., Duan, N., Meltzer D., Inequities in liver transplant allocation. Science, 289, 549, 2000.

Gibbons R.D., & Coleman D., Statistical Methods for Detection and Quantification of Environmental Pollutants, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001.